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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Fish of My Dreams.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about the Bachelor of Powalgarh?
(a) His teeth.
(b) His intelligence.
(c) His size.
(d) His color.

2. What establishes the fact that the first of the Chowgrarh tigers Corbett kills is also a man-eater?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Clothes found in the stomach of the tiger.
(c) That a man and wife had been killed simultaneously.
(d) Reports from a neighboring region where the younger tiger had killed people.

3. What was Corbett's best guess at the weight of the fish?
(a) Five pounds.
(b) Fifteen pounds.
(c) Fifty pounds.
(d) A single pound at most.

4. What does Corbett say he has a great distaste for?
(a) Going into mountain rivers over his head.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Having an animal get the better of him.
(d) Wastefulness.

5. When Corbett finally overtakes the wounded Bachelor of Powalgarh, how is he moving through the forest?
(a) Crawling on his stomach.
(b) Running at full speed.
(c) Crashing blindly through the underbrush.
(d) Riding a water buffalo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conclusion does Corbett draw from differences between man-eating tigers and man-eating leopards?

2. What does Corbett realize after reeling in sixty yards of the fishing line?

3. In what state does Corbett find the people of Pali when he arrives?

4. How many days in all does it take Corbett to kill the Bachelor of Powalgarh?

5. Which of the following is NOT a natural circumstance which may incite any tiger to kill a human?

(see the answer key)

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